Yep. Still stuck back in the Sixties...

Of course Cronkite knows what he's talking about. Cause, you know, a career TV journalist with no access to classified documents knows exactly what the president needs to do.....

Walter Kronkite -- where on earth did they dig him up from?

The Potters Field Post?

Check out my exclusive edit of BBC News America's interview with Mrs Clinton: It's news to me!

Cronking just wants to relive his "glory days" when LBJ whined "If I've lost Walter Cronkite, I've lost Middle America." In fact, in a later interview with Esquire magazint, he remarked that what LBJ should have said was "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost ALL of America."

"The war in Iraq reminds us of the tragedy of the Vietnam War." No, Walt, it reminds no one but YOU of Vietnam. And even then, your recollection is a little fuzzy. It was John F. Kennedy (GASP, YOU SAID HIS NAME) who increased our role in Vietnam. Second, if we had taken the same approach in Vietnam that we took in Iraq, that war would have been over and done with by 1965 and Vietnam would have been free. Third, we are winning in Iraq because President Bush refuses to listen to the likes of you and your ilk. You are just another crazy uncle in the corner at the party shouting at people who aren't there.

Two words - "old Fool"!

Walter Cronkite turned one desperate quote from Lyndon Johnson into the colossal myth that he was somehow "the most trusted Man in America".  Any shred of credibility this fossil had left was destroyed when he suggested---with a straight face---that Karl Rove had coordinated with Osama Bin Laden to release a threat tape days before the 2004 Election.  In truth, Cronkite is your typical has-been windbag living large off past "glory"...the Bob Denver or Ed Burns of news.  Cronkie, Cronkie, lend me your comb. 

The premise of the news media is that they know something we don’t. The key word is “know.” Professional media support their reports with credible evidence or reliable testimony, and that justifies their beliefs that they report to us. Over the last few years, especially with the news media, we’ve discovered that the media has been cheating. They publish reports that reflect their beliefs, but they’ve been skimming on the evidence.

• That’s why the Dan Rather-gate document scandal is so revealing; it shows how the media will accept anything as evidence, so long as it supports their preconceived assumptions. It becomes a circular argument. The evidence is “solid” because it fits with their assumptions, and the assumptions are reinforced because they’re based on “evidence.”

This Cronkite speech reflects the same cycle. Cronkite is using his lofty position to assure us of his conclusions. However, look at how he’s supporting his conclusions (his “evidence”):

• Bush is stubborn, and wants to stick his failure on his successor -- who made Cronkite a clinical psychologist?

• “We have destroyed cities to save them” -- what cities have we destroyed?

• Uncorroborated reports of one million dead -- but most reports set the total much lower, in the tens of thousands. (Any other wild, uncorroborated statistics you feel like throwing out there indiscriminately, Walter?)

• Congress was lied to -- prove to us, Walter, how Bush lied? Bush did pass along information that turned out to be false, but it was the same information that everyone else (including Clinton and most of Europe) also believed to be true. It isn’t lying if you say something that you believe to be true. Now Walter, don’t you know the difference between a lie and a mistake?

• American credibility was diminished. It's unlucky for Walter that this came out today. The NIE report proved that with the invasion of Iraq, America showed the rest of the region that we were serious, and they fully believed our resolve. The only weakening of credibility comes from the Left, which has been undermining our efforts from Day One.

Cronkite is showing us that he’s been perfectly willing to base his conclusions on shaky evidence and partisan, ideological prejudices. Maybe, just maybe, people will start to see that this has been his technique all along, and that he never deserved any credibility in the first place.

Instead of the troops leaving Iraq, I think senile old goats

like Walter Cronkite should stay at home.

What a buffoon this person has become.

Our troops will leave Iraq, as soon as the terrorists are obliterated and the people-run government is stabilized...

Walter Cronkite should leave public life.

  I thought he was good and dead, er, hoped he was dead.